Hooray
neville and
psycho - some awareness of reality prevails at last!
oicur, you should come to HK and see what a 744 Captain earns in comparison to his 'lowly' QF counterpart (whom you erroneously seem to believe earns
"way above average"). The likes of CX and Fedex are the yardsticks we should be aiming for with our salaries not crummy operators like Tiger. Why aim low? Unless of course your sympathies lie purely with management and thus you will happily screw every last penny from us overpaid glorified bus drivers into your own pocket. Some of your posts seem to lean this way.
And
"never the case in Oz" for pilot shortage? Ask Rex about that! Have you actually been awake over the last 10 years?
VB also had a mini-exodus some time back and this will resume as the GFC abates and overseas airlines become increasingly desperate.
And finally, your last point
'Market forces work both ways. They cannot be embraced during a labor shortage to improve conditions but ignored during a downturn'. Why the hell not? Management have screwed pilots for years using this principal, why shouldn't professional pilots do the same? Particularly when the same management repeatedly cry poor (Dixon) then make tens/hundreds of millions in profits and pocket obscene amount in bonuses. What a farce.
I can only assume/hope
oicur you are not a professional pilot because with attitudes like yours who needs enemies? Our own are all too willing to undercut us and thereby damage our collective fortunes. Your previous posts illustrate this point far more clearly than my words ever could.